I couldn’t get the game to consistently run at 60fps, and the advanced video settings being disabled didn’t help. It’s Battlefront all over again: the majority camps in one or two game modes, while the more adventurous gamers die a slow death in the matchmaking queue.Īnd while I know it’s still a beta, DOOM’s raw mechanics need a tune-up. I got about two games of Warpath the entire weekend. On PC that was Team Deathmatch, and only Team Deathmatch. And then there’s Modern Warfare-esque matchmaking lobbies, which are fine provided there’s enough online playing the mode you like. There’s ammo, health and armour strewn throughout the map, but not extra weapons. It’s not a slow shooter, but it’s not that manic combination of speed, shotguns and severed limbs flying off the walls either.Īnd there’s stuff that doesn’t quite fit. It’s a godsend that every player can double-jump and climb walls with aplomb, because the default movement speed feels incredibly stodgy. The same goes for much of the basic elements. Shootmania Storm has well and truly vanished, and indie efforts such as Toxikk have failed to gain any traction whatsoever.
The Melbourne-made Reflex? Just enough for a small LAN party. In fact, they’re basically failures.ĭirty Bomb has a few thousand players on average at any one time. Most of the modern takes on arena shooters aren’t popular. It was that era of forgettable modern military shooters, and if you weren’t a fan of Halo or Gears of War, it was a sad time.īut as nice as it is to have progressed from those few years of gun-barrel grey and bogwater brown, there’s a uncomfortable reality. For a little while the closest thing we had to the speed and intensity of Quake 3 was, well, Call of Duty deathmatch.
I’ve been pretty vocal over the last few years about how happy I am to see the rise and return of the arena shooter.
But after spending some time over the weekend with the two modes and maps available in the new DOOM, it’s hard to shake the feeling that something’s not quite right.
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